DOWNLOAD OR LISTEN TO MARCH 12 SHOW HERE:
LINKS MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
Ben Parfitt’s report on secret Forestry Ministry plans to log old growth forests.
Download the full report here.
Read Parfitt’s report on The Tyee here:
Lake Blitz! Find out about helping with LivingLakesCanada.ca’s summer lake monitoring program.
https://livinglakescanada.ca/our-programs/lakes/lake-blitz/
Putting Wheels on the Bus report
The national report on financing a great climate and affordability move… making transit systems wider spread and more convenient. Read the report here:
COMING EVENTS:
Thursday, March 14, 9 am
Webinar with author John Vaillant
Burning Questions: Climate, Forests, and a Path Forward
If you missed author John Vaillant when he spoke here in Nelson about his book Fireweather, you can catch him online this week. A deep dive with Vaillant, a masterful storyteller, as he takes us through the heart of wildfires, from the devastating 2016 Fort McMurray blaze to the broader, scorching reality of climate-change-induced events that impact our planet.
https://canopyplanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lHRzhD6dQpuAuE6F5WU7zQ#/registration
Thursday, March 14, Noon to 1:00pm
Free Workshop Webinar for Kootenay businesses
Climate Action 101
Join BC Green Business for Climate Action 101, a free webinar where you’ll discover the basics of climate action and how businesses can easily design and implement decarbonization strategies.
https://www.mycfck.ca/workshops/138/climate-action-101
Noon Friday, March 15 Noon
Free online Webinar
West Kootenay Climate Hub webinar:
Weaving together people and place – creating a climate of regeneration
Jan Inglis will be exploring the concept of bioregionalism within our own community, sharing examples of on the ground regenerative projects and discussing how we can deepen ecological connections.
https://www.westkootenayclimatehub.ca/event-details/march2024-webinar
March 22nd is World Water Day…
ENVIRONMENT NEWS BITS
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians support a windfall profit tax on oil and gas companies report three national environmental groups this week. The data comes from a new national Léger surveu commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF), 350.org, and Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac).
The survey asked respondents whether Canada should introduce a tax on the companies’ record profits, as countries like the United Kingdom have done. The idea received 62% support nation-wide, with 21% opposed and 17% undecided. It drew majority backing “throughout Canada”, they reported, with the biggest numbers in Quebec and Ontario. The world’s largest oil companies reported record profits of over $250 billion last year.
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Canada, the United States and the Ktunaxa Nation are asking the International Joint Commission (IJC) to study water pollution concerns in the Elk-Kootenai watershed. They hope to have a plan in place by the end of June.
The Ktunaxa Nation have been seeking a reference to the IJC for over a decade because of their ongoing concerns with mining pollution in the Elk River and Koocanusa Reservoir stemming from coal mining activities in the Elk Valley.
Kathryn Teneese, chair of the Ktunaxa Nation Council welcomed the announcement, while noting that there’s more work to be done over the coming months and years.
Greta Thunberg has accused Sweden of being “very good at greenwashing” as she staged a protest along with about 50 other activists outside her home country’s parliament.
The activists – who she said were acting as a group of concerned, largely young individuals rather than representing a particular organisation – sat outside the main entrance to Sweden’s government buildings in Stockholm on Monday morning in an attempt to stop politicians from getting to work.
The action came on a high-stakes day for the Swedish government, with the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, and numerous key figures in Brussels for its official flag-raising ceremony outside Nato headquarters after becoming members last week.
The 21-year-old climate activist said: “Sweden is unfortunately not unique in completely ignoring the climate crisis, not treating it as an emergency at all. But actively trying to greenwash, deceive and lie in order to make it seem like they are doing enough and that they are moving in the right direction, when in fact the exact opposite is happening.”
New York City has announced plans to create 260,000 “green collar” jobs over the next 16 years.
The new opportunities will show up “in retrofitting apartment blocks, installing solar panels, EV charging stations, and wind turbines across the five boroughs,” The Independent reports.
“Climate change is real. We see it every time we see the coastal storms. And let’s be clear: we are in February, and you could go outside without a jacket on,” Mayor Eric Adams said last week. “Something is just not right.”
The heart of British Columbia’s wine industry is reeling after suffering a litany of climate-related hits, resulting in two years of crop losses in the southern Interior.
Record-breaking heat. Wildfires and smoke that repeatedly contaminated grapes. A destructive cold snap in 2022. Then, the hammer blow — another deep freeze this January that is estimated to have inflicted up to 99 per cent crop loss across the province, wiping out this year’s vintage.
While vineyards need support, sommelier Van Doren Chan says it’s an opportunity to reshape winemaking in the province.
“It’s almost like it’s a clean slate,” she says. “How are we going to structure the next generation of B.C. wine?”
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